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Darwin Surf Club President Michelle Taylor says the move to Casuarina Beach for the iconic Darwin Open Swim event was a great one · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: But we know over the weekend, well, it usually happens
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  Speaker 1: at Fanny Bay, but this year we saw competitors take
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  Speaker 1: to the sea in the iconic darw And open water
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  Speaker 1: swim and joining us on the line to tell us
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  Speaker 1: how it all went from the Darwen Surf Club. We've
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  Speaker 1: got the president there, Michelle Taylor. Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: Michelle, Good morning, Kay.
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  Speaker 1: How are you on really well? How did it all
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  Speaker 1: go on the weekend?
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  Speaker 2: It was amazing success. I've been part of Fanny Baseline
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  Speaker 2: probably for ten years now. We had one year that
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  Speaker 2: went we didn't do it when so she COVID was
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  Speaker 2: here yep, and we had blowing reports from swimmers, official
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  Speaker 2: water safety yep. It was a success.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good stuff, Michelle. How many swimmers took part this year?
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  Speaker 2: We had John and four register, but I think it
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  Speaker 2: was one hundred and seventy six that took to the
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  Speaker 2: water in the short and the long course.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of them had a big night maybe the
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  Speaker 1: night before, and figured.
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  Speaker 2: They couldn't be It's hard to know.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to know. I often readister for things Michelle
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  Speaker 1: and think I hope I get there. But you had
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  Speaker 1: it this year at Casarina Beach rather than rather than
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  Speaker 1: Fanny Bay. Why was that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, what happened was there was a double booking with
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  Speaker 2: Termit at the East Coast Reserve, so we had to
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  Speaker 2: think on our feet and we decided to change the
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  Speaker 2: course and we brought it back to our club, which
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  Speaker 2: was a really great idea.
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  Speaker 1: It's not good on you being able to adapt like that.
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  Speaker 1: And how was the course this year given the fact
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  Speaker 1: that it was a bit different to what you usually do.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think everybody had their concerns at the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: Swimmers were arming and hoering about it if it was
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  Speaker 2: going to be as good as Fanny Bay. But the
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  Speaker 2: reports were blowing and people actually said, I really hope
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  Speaker 2: you're going to do it here again. They loved Fanny Bay,
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  Speaker 2: but they would prefer it at the club. They loved
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  Speaker 2: being at the club at the end, at the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: they loved walking along the beach to the start of
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  Speaker 2: the course.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all good stuff, now were there? Any How did
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  Speaker 1: those times go at that new course?
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  Speaker 2: The times were faster. If the time and the dates
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  Speaker 2: for the swim was picked by Brian Gallagher. He's a
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  Speaker 2: very experienced triathlete and remember any pick the tides and
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  Speaker 2: the currents. We know that the currents makes the swim
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  Speaker 2: a lot faster, and so what we know from our
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  Speaker 2: gun swimmer, Megan Gallagher, she I think cut her time
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  Speaker 2: between eight and ten minutes shorter in the long course.
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  Speaker 2: She was really flying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good honor, and do you reckon those conditions had
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  Speaker 1: a bit of an impact.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, definitely the current. Yeah, everybody enjoyed that for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, how wonderful. Now you said in the end, you
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  Speaker 1: got about one hundred and seventy six swimmers, people of
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  Speaker 1: all ages as well, I'm assuming Michelle.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, our oldest swimmer, he was a man of the
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  Speaker 2: seventy I totally believe names, but he was amazing and
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  Speaker 2: we had quite a few when there were sixty to
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  Speaker 2: seventy eighth groups as well.
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  Speaker 1: All good stuff and any young ones.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it was an ape ross between twelve and sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: and we had I think we had about four young ones.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that that's the long course, I believe, and
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  Speaker 2: they did really well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that is wonderful to hear and I know that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's always such a great event and people would
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  Speaker 1: have been absolutely tough to be, you know, able to
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  Speaker 1: do it, and that different location. Sounds like it was
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  Speaker 1: a hit. Yes, it was all good stuff. Well, wonderful
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you this morning, Michelle. I really appreciate
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  Speaker 1: your time and yep, no doubt we'll talk to you
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  Speaker 1: again next year.
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  Speaker 2: That Katie, thank you.